The BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball has announced she is stepping down from her breakfast show after six years. “After six incredible years on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, it’s time for me to step away from the very early mornings and focus on family,” she told listeners on Tuesday. Her last show will be on Friday 20 December, she said. Ball was absent from the airwaves on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show for nearly two months over the summer when Scott Mills stepped in. She returned in September amid speculation about her future on the station.